I’m used to seeing lamps and tables in unusual shapes and designs. So I shouldn’t have been too surprised to see lamps on an auction-house website whose bases were wild boars.
Not too long ago at this same auction house, a faux snake had curled its head around the opaque glass shade of a floor lamp. The lamp was lovely, the snake was not.
The boars were the center of attraction on table lamps with traditional shades. Googling, I found boars used in all types of ways – from mounted in their own fur to bronzed atop an object to one that was “distressed” to look old and weathered.
The lamps were not the only strange items at the auction house. As I made my way around the furniture room and down the aisles, I found a cheese-shaped table. It looked like a cheese wheel, but much larger with the yellow color lacking the orange tint of real cheddar. A wedge, though, had been cut out of it.
I only knew what it was because that’s how it was described by the auction house. If not, I’d still be puzzled.
When I Googled “cheese table” to see if it had cousins, I got tons of photos of cheese and accoutrements atop a table. Googling “cheese living room table,” I found a photo of a lovely round low table in light blue and black that was divided into four removable wedges. “Cheese coffee table” turned up a wooden table with a removable wedge, as well as a cheese box refashioned into a nightstand.
Another odd table on the auction-house floor was a boat made into a coffee table, at least that’s how the auction house identified it. It was basically a boat with legs, with its center still hollow and its oars on the side. I found several boat tables on the web (one sold for $600 at an auction in 2012), all of which were equipped with a glass top. Maybe the boat table at the recent auction was a work in progress.
What do you think of these items? I think someone had a little too much time on their hands and too little imagination on the cheese and boat tables.
